Edit Doron

Doron was born in Jerusalem.^[1] Her father emigrated from Turkey to British Mandate Palestine in 1935, after his family was expelled from its home in Gallipoli. Her mother was born in British Mandate Palestine.^[2]

She studied in the Hebrew University Secondary School,^[3] and later completed BA and MA in math in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.^[2] She earned a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1983. From 1984 to 1985 she held a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University.^[4]

Doron died of cancer on March 27, 2019, aged 67.

Doron was a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Language, Logic and Cognition Center in the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.^[5] Doron's research in general linguistics focuses in particular on Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, English and French. She published many articles on the interface of semantics, morphology and syntax.^[6]

Doron was President of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics from 2008 to 2010. She served as co-director of the joint Hebrew University and Tel-Aviv University structured Linguistics PhD program.^[7]

Doron was awarded the Israel Prize in on May 11, 2016^[8] for her work on general linguistics and Hebrew.^[9] In particular she was recognized for comparative analysis between modern and biblical Hebrew that are considered groundbreaking.^[10] The Israel Prize (Hebrew: פרס ישראל) is an award handed out by the State of Israel and is generally regarded as the state's highest honor. It is presented annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state ceremony in Jerusalem, in the presence of the President, the Prime Minister, the Speaker of the Knesset (Israel's legislature), and the Supreme Court President.